Local performing artist, storyteller, actor and playwright Tammy Denease is known for bringing important and hidden Black women in history to life through her one-woman plays throughout the state. She took another big step forward this week with her directorial debut in “Living History: Elizabeth Keckly Freedom Tailored by Hand.”
A collaboration between The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Connecticut Historical Society (CHS), and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will bring a summer of revolutionary experiences to Hartford, providing varying perspectives on the era of the American Revolution and its contemporary retelling through the prism of the award-winning musical Hamilton.